Little man's little bit of luck runs out

You've heard about the four-and-twenty blackbirds, but an 18-inch, 7-year-old boy, baked in a pie? The truth, as they say, is stranger than fiction. It's not the pie but the seven-year-old who commands attention in Lord Minimus: The Extraordinary Life of Britain's Smallest Man, an engaging, poignant biography of a little man who had a little luck for the first 25 years of his life and ran...